Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

A university student in Kyoto spends his evenings trying to engineer chance encounters with a younger classmate, a sophomore known only as the Girl with Black Hair, hoping she will come to see their meetings as fate. She notices none of it: her night out follows its own course through the city's bars and streets, where drinks are downed in quantity, a second-hand book from her childhood surfaces, and the people and creatures she runs into grow steadily stranger. Across one long night, the two move through the same city, with his plans repeatedly overtaken by events.

The film is an animated feature directed by Masaaki Yuasa, with a screenplay by Makoto Ueda. It sits between Lu Over the Wall and Ride Your Wave in the run of features Yuasa has directed, which began with Mind Game in 2004 and continued through Inu-Oh in 2022. The voice cast includes Gen Hoshino as Senpai, Kana Hanazawa as the Girl with Black Hair, Ami Koshimizu, Aoi Yuki, Hiroshi Kamiya and Chikara Honda. Science SARU produced alongside TOHO, Fuji Television Network and KADOKAWA.

Released in April 2017 and running 93 minutes, the film took in about 4 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.5 out of 10 from roughly 7,300 votes, and on TMDB 7.4 from 266 votes, while a critics' rating of 7.3 from 31 reviews puts professional and audience assessments close together.